Packet Pushers · Sep 2026
TNO072: Connectivity and Community
A walk back through the career so far, and how connectivity work and community building ended up being the same job.
Video
Sessions &
Sessions &
appearances.
Selector · Aug 2026
Making AI (net)work: Tips for a Successful AI-Integrated Network
What a network needs to look like before AI workloads run well on it, rather than becoming the bottleneck.
Selector · NYC · Aug 2026
Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A: AI for Network Leaders
Attendee questions on rolling out agentic AI in network operations and earning trust in production.
Packet Pushers · Jun 2026
The Sum, Not Just the Parts
How and why to look at your network as a whole instead of optimising one box at a time.
The Art of Network Engineering · May 2026
Tech Careers Are Built on Relationships, Not Resumes
Why the people you know move your career further than the certifications you hold.
Tech Field Day Plus · NFD40 · Apr 2026
Bridging Silos with AI and Telemetry
Where telemetry and AI actually help the handoff between network, security and platform teams.
Tech Field Day Plus · Apr 2026
Networking Needs More Telemetry
Podcast panel on why most networks are still flying with far less instrumentation than they need.
Selector · Apr 2026
Why "People Connector" Is the Ultimate Superpower in Tech
On building community in networking, and why connecting people compounds in a way technical skill alone does not.
TeleGeography · TG Explains AI · Feb 2026
AI Adoption in Networking
Where AI is actually landing in network operations, and where it is still a slide.
Laketec · Dec 2025
Unwrapping AI & Network Automation at The Network Buzz
A practitioner conversation on automation and AI without the vendor framing.
Laketec · Sep 2025
Applied AI for Networking
Where AI is genuinely useful inside network operations, and what it still cannot do for you.
Cables to Clouds · Jun 2025
The Grass Isn't Always Greener on the Entrepreneurial Side
An honest account of leaving a job to start something, and what nobody tells you first.
Tech Field Day · NFD37 · Apr 2025
Virtual Networks Are Air Gapped
Delegate session arguing that virtual network isolation is not the air gap people think it is.
Tech Field Day · NFD37 · Mar 2025
US Networking User Association at NFD37
Presenting USNUA to the Field Day delegates. A vendor-neutral environment to talk networks.
The Art of Network Engineering · Mar 2023
Episode 116: Internet Exchanges and SD-WAN
Long-form conversation on the career, the community and the road from dial-up helpdesk to service provider engineering.
Tech Field Day · NFD28 · Jun 2022
Networking is Too Complex
Panel on whether the complexity in modern networks is essential or self-inflicted.
Gestalt IT Showcase · Aug 2021
VMware SASE Technical Overview
Delegate panel digging into how VMware's SASE service stitches together WAN, access and security.
Gestalt IT Showcase · Aug 2021
VMware SASE Vision
Delegate panel on where SASE is taking an enterprise that no longer has a perimeter.
Gestalt IT · Jul 2021
Fortinet's Unique Approach to SD-WAN
Breaking down where Fortinet's SD-WAN architecture differs from the rest of the field.
Tech Field Day Plus · Feb 2021
Is SASE Just A Marketing Term?
Pulling apart what SASE means once you remove the category name.
Demo · Jun 2020
Failover of Zoom Video Conferencing with Dell EMC SD-WAN
A live Zoom call surviving a 4G failover on Dell EMC SD-WAN.
Ohio Networking User Group · Feb 2020
(OH)NUG Virtual Meeting Winter 2020
An Ohio IX presentation and a practitioner panel on the state of the industry.
Fortify Your Data · May 2019
Exploring SD-WAN Technology
A walk through SD-WAN architecture and where it genuinely changes the operating model.
VeloCloud Webinar Series · Sep 2017
Driving Rapid Healthcare Enterprise Growth with SD-WAN
Scaling a healthcare network through acquisition without the WAN becoming the bottleneck.
WAN Dynamics · Apr 2016
Introducing DynaWAN From WAN Dynamics
The launch video for WAN Dynamics' managed SD-WAN service.
Audio
Podcasts.
Packet Pushers · Jun 2026
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Heavy Networking 831: The Sum, Not Just the Parts
The audio of the same conversation: why the network only makes sense read as a whole.
The Art of Network Engineering · May 2026
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Tech Careers Are Built on Relationships, Not Resumes
Why the people you know move your career further than the certifications you hold.
Next-Gen Network Heroes · Apr 2026
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Why "People Connector" Is the Ultimate Superpower in Tech
On building community in networking, and why connecting people compounds in a way technical skill alone does not.
Dissecting Popular IT Nerds · Oct 2025
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Culture Eats Technology for Breakfast
Why the org chart breaks the network design more often than the vendor does.
Telemetry Now · Kentik · Jun 2025
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Networking for Schools and Colleges
What connectivity looks like for education networks, where the budget and the threat model are both unusual.
Packet Pushers · May 2025
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Heavy Networking 783: BGP Routing Policy for Enterprise Networkers
Unpacking IRR and RPSL for people who inherited a routing policy they did not write.
Telemetry Now · Kentik · Feb 2025
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Building Community with the (US)NUA
How a regional user group became a national practitioner community, and why that is harder than it sounds.
Packet Pushers · Oct 2023
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IPv6 Buzz 137: Running IPv6 At An Internet Exchange
Operating dual-stack on an exchange fabric, from the board side and the switch side.
The Imposter Syndrome Network · Sep 2023
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Jason Gintert
The parts of a technical career that do not go on a résumé.
Packet Pushers · May 2023
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Heavy Networking 677: US Networking User Association
Meetups for network engineers, and what makes one work.
The Art of Network Engineering · Mar 2023
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Internet Exchanges and SD-WAN
The road from dial-up helpdesk to service provider engineering, and what an exchange actually does.
TeleGeography Explains the Internet · May 2022
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Episode 313: Very NaaS!
Network as a service, what it actually replaces and what it quietly does not.
TeleGeography Explains the Internet · Feb 2021
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Episode 202: SFW (Safe for WANs)
Enterprise WAN economics with the people who count the cables.
Built in Ohio · Jul 2020
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Jason Gintert on Networking
Building network infrastructure and community from Cleveland.
Packet Pushers · Aug 2019
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Heavy Networking 468: Making The Business Case For SD-WAN
Translating an architecture decision into something a CFO signs.
Underlay · Network Collective · Jun 2019
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Episode 64: MPLS is Dead, Long Live MPLS
The obituary was premature, and the reasons why are the interesting part.
Packet Pushers · Mar 2019
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Heavy Networking 432: Analyzing SD-WAN So Far And So Future
A market read from inside it, before the consolidation.
Underlay · Network Collective · Jan 2019
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Episode 42: SD-WAN Beyond the Hype
What the technology actually did once it hit production networks.
Telecom Radio One · Jan 2017
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Phil Howard Interviews Jason Gintert
An early conversation on where enterprise connectivity was heading.
Writing
Published
Published
elsewhere.
US Networking User Association · Mar 2026
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Putting the Human Back in Network Engineering
What gets lost when the job is reduced to tickets and dashboards, and how to get it back.
US Networking User Association · Nov 2025
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Autocon4: Writing the Network Automation Business Case
Notes from Autocon4 on making the case for automation to the people who sign the budget.
Techstrong IT · Jul 2025
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Alkira Redefines Enterprise Connectivity with Network Infrastructure as a Service
What network infrastructure as a service changes about how connectivity gets bought and operated.
US Networking User Association · Jul 2025
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The Power of Community
Why a room full of practitioners beats any single vendor briefing.
US Networking User Association · Jan 2025
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Network. Learn. Grow. Oh and There's Free Beer!
What a USNUA meetup is actually for, and why the beer is not the point.
Pipeline Magazine · Jan 2024
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AI for Networks: Use Cases
Where machine learning earns its place in network operations, and the use cases that hold up in production.
Lightyear · Aug 2022
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Why Quality Circuits Still Matter with SD-WAN
SD-WAN does not repeal physics. What the underlay still has to deliver before the overlay can do its job.
Techstrong IT · Jul 2022
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Monitoring Secure Networks with Flowmon and WhatsUp Gold
Getting real visibility out of flow data without drowning the team in alerts.
Packet Pushers · Nov 2021
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SD-WAN: Building the Business Case and Understanding Your ROI
A whitepaper on resiliency, quality of experience, deployment agility and how to actually calculate the savings.
IEEE ComSoc Technology News · Mar 2018
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How SD-WAN Provides Reliable Voice and Video Services Over the Internet
An early look at making the public internet carry real-time traffic predictably enough to trust.
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